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About A Corner Of The World
Product Description "Mylene Fernandez offers us a magnificent gift. Her story of lost love and the difficult pursuit of literature is at the same time an X-ray of life in Havana, set in a present where glimpses of the future have not yet arrived." Leonardo Padura, author of The Man Who Loved Dogs and the Mario Conde novels of Havana A cautious, reserved professor of Spanish Literature, Marian has no idea that her quiet life is about to be turned upside down. When she's asked to review the work of a young, ambitious first-time novelist, she meets Daniel, and their love affair leads her to question both the choices she's made so far in her life and the opportunities she might yet still have. Theirs is the story of an intense and impossible love, set in today's Havana, a city where there can be no plans, where chance is the order of the day and a fierce sense of loyalty and pride coexists with the desire to live beyond the island's isolation. "The fresh panorama of Cuban society today is painted without taboos or constraints, with a faith in human possibilities, and above all with a courage that stems from what is most legitimate and durable in ourselves." Nancy Morejón, author of Looking Within: Selected Poems and Piedra Pulida " A Corner of the World is about desires and dreams, and, of course, about love." Achy Obejas, author of Days of Awe and Ruins "Like the best of Truman Capote, another master of the short novel, Mylene Fernández gives us a cast of unforgettable characters: contradictory, complex, and human." Fernando Pérez, director of Suite Habana, Life Is to Whistle, and Madagascar "To read this book is to encounter one of the best and most intimate works of Cuban literature of the 21st century." Mabel Cuesta, author of Cuba post-soviética: un cuerpo narrado en clave de mujer "A sad, erotic, tender, and sometimes ironic tale of passion and desertion. the city becomes a co-protagonist, a confidante, a point of departure and return, and of waiting."— Senel Paz, novelist and screenwriter of Strawberry and Chocolate, Things I Left in Havana, and In the Sky with Diamonds Review "[Mylene Fernández-Pintado’s] talent for characterization and deep knowledge of Cuban history shines through."―Publishers Weekly "Fernández-Pintado's novel, capably translated … challenges the tropes and stereotypes inherent in much of the literature about Cuba to add a new perspective … A sharp, funny blend of politics and romance that strikes out in a new direction."―Kirkus Reviews “The … blend of cosmopolitan energy and page-turning prose makes for unforgettable reading [and] helps to explain why [Mylene Fernández-Pintado's] work continues to be translated across the globe."―Booklist “Fernández-Pintado artfully reveals the impact of Cuba’s socialist system on individuals’ sense of belonging … poignantly rendered throughout her novel … As the story unfolds, the professor coaxed out of her shell through a romantic liaison with a younger bohemian writer, we also get brief and profound digressions about such universal topics as violence, depression, and anxiety, as well poignant reflections upon women and guilt, a sense that being sexual as well as intellectual is entirely provocative, and upon the complicated relationship of parenting, legacy, and health on the individual and national levels. In these ways, A Corner of the World transcends its Cuban backdrop, and emerges as a beautiful and painful love story inhabiting other novels.”––Jacqueline Loss, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas "A Corner of the World explores the irreconcilable rift created between a couple—a young writer and a professor of literature—when one wants to leave, and the other does not. While everyone in Cuba knows someone who has left, stories told from the perspective of a narrator who, like Fernández, would never leave without a return ticket, are not ones often heard in the US.”—Lea Aschkenas, Los Angeles Review of Books "As one of the first female-authored nov
